Lorado Taft
(American, 1860-1936)The Blind(working model)Description: Lorado Taft’s figural plaster cast entitled The Blind served as a working model for the finished piece that resides at the University of Illinois campus in Champaign-Urbana; this figural group depicts a group of blind people rendered from a scene from Maeterlinck’s tragic drama, Les Aveugles (The Blind) in which the group is wandering lost through a forest without the ability to see; the group unifies with the hope that the young child (positioned in the center), who is able to see, will lead them to salvation